Euphorion
Subtitle: Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781417905706
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Art; Art & Art Instruction; History - Renaissance; Art / History / Renaissance
First sentence: AT the end of the fifteenth century, Italy was the centre of European civilization: while the other nations were still plunged in a feudal barbarism which seems almost as far removed from all our sympathies as is the condition of some American or Polynesian savages, the Italians appear to us as possessing habits of thought, a mode of life, political, social, and literary institutions, not unlike those of to-day; as men whom we can thoroughly understand, whose ideas and aims, whose general views, resemble our own in that main, indefinable characteristic of being modern.